| Title: | William Bell [?], to "Miss Wear [Weir?]" |
|---|---|
| ID | 166 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Bell, William/33 |
| Year | 1889 |
| Sender | Bell, William |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | day labourer |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Michigan, USA |
| Destination | Pontiac, Michigan, USA |
| Recipient | Weir, Anne |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | friends |
| Source | Copyright retained by Mrs. Linda Weir, Tirmacspird, Lack,Co.Fermanagh, BT93 0SA |
| Archive | Ulster American Folk Park |
| Doc. No. | 9904217 |
| Date | 06/08/1889 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 23:04:99. |
| Word Count | 261 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | William Bell from to Miss Wear [Weir?] Augast [August?] th 6 1889 Dear frend [friend?] you will think by this time that i am not goin [going?] to ancer [answer?] your kind and welcom [welcome?] letter or not goin [going?] to see you well i have been bissey [busy?] all the time in the hay and harvest with John Bell and i am comenced [commenced?] oats tooday [today?] i have been in Mr Bell to with Davet [David?] he is well Mrs Bell is well and doin [doing?] all the work the [they?] cant get a girl Jame [James?] youngs [Young?] is home from the west sick he was askn [asking?] about you i will be goin [going?] up to Pontick [Pontiac?] after all is settled and i hope i will see you as you are from the old maid you ought to send her down to Mrs Bell to live old Mrs McKinly [McKinley?] was bered [buried?] last saterd [Saturday?] she had hart daise [heart?] [disease?] your unkl [uncle?] and ant [aunt?] is well and workn [working?] all the time he has got a hard man now betwen [between?] the tow [two?] so he will be well dun [done?] for i sepose [suppose?] you will have Bella Back from her vecasion [vacation?] by this time i sepose [suppose?] you were pretty lonlay [lonely?] when she was away is it so that Mrs [ling?] is left the aseylum [asylum?] and gon [gone?] to Detroit i heard she was i have not got much mews [news?] to send you so I will Close with kind love to you hoping to hear from you soon W [William?] Bell |
